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cliff Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 625 Credit: 3,590,440 RAC: 0 |
Sorry to hear Cliff. I'm on pension, so I really have to cut back, there is no way I can afford to have another bill even close to the present one. I'll have to see what I can do, after its paid off and if I can afford to run even 1 rig for as long as 12 hours. If I can afford to sometime I'll be back:-) Regards, Cliff, Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt! |
AndrewM Send message Joined: 5 Jan 08 Posts: 369 Credit: 34,275,196 RAC: 0 |
Sorry to hear Cliff. Have you considered running only CPU tasks through your preferences page? GPUs use a lot of power. Your rac would dive to 7 thousand odd, and you'd retain an interest in the community message boards. Quality of Lifestyle is the important thing, not how many seti toasters you earn. Cheers. AndrewM |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Have you considered running only CPU tasks through your preferences page? I completely agree. Well said. |
Speedy Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1643 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89 |
We are down to only 98 AP 5 on the SSP, are you going to be ok . . . . 4 AP's tapes are been split. The thing I'd like to know is where are they? There's none in ready to send & only 95 Results out in the field as of 28 Apr 2012 23:10:06 UTC with a creation rate of 0 per second. Traffics at just over 94MB a sec |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
We are down to only 98 AP 5 on the SSP, are you going to be ok . . . . It's because the Server Status page hasn't been re-written. It only shows the last dregs of the v505 run. I hope that is a deliberate decision - those 95 tasks in no way account for the 12,501 tasks awaiting validation. So, let's wait until they drop to zero [pssst - nobody tell the staff, please], and then we can send the cleaning crew into the database and get those lost results safely rounded up. Then, and only then, it'll be time to update the SSP so we can monitor the AP v6 progress. |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
We are down to only 98 AP 5 on the SSP, are you going to be ok . . . . You always make so much sense. Thank you! Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
john3760 Send message Joined: 9 Feb 11 Posts: 334 Credit: 3,400,979 RAC: 0 |
Cliff,just turn 1 on for an hour or so a week and stay on the message boards. Sorry to see you go ,I'm sure you'll be back occasionally. John3760 |
shizaru Send message Joined: 14 Jun 04 Posts: 1130 Credit: 1,967,904 RAC: 0 |
Well panics over, time for rational descision taking is here. Oi! What happened to "Boinc IS my hobby"?:) I loved that line! Ok, ok, I know, the electricity bill... Well those GPUs alone must be burning at least 400W. Probably closer to 600W. Would you leave half a dozen 100W light-bulbs on 24/7? Do you even have 100W light bulbs anymore? It sounds like Boinc is costing you around 40 quid a month. To be honest, with those 2 PCs you've got I imagined it would be more (but that's another story). Maybe you could ask yourself how much you are willing to spend on your favorite hobby. If the answer is "nil", fair enough. If the answer is "a fiver", then you've got a ton of options: You could sell off the GPUs. You could sell off one of the PCs. You could sell off both the desktops and get a nice laptop ( I love crunching on my little laptop). You could keep everything and (like others have mentioned) use only the CPUs "between the hours of ... and ..." in your settings. But whatever you do, please don't go on a diet of Tesco Value Beans for the rest of your life:) Or maybe Eric can help put things into perspective: Back in 1999 we were aiming at 150 hours for the jobs that now take 2 (and do more processing.) When we were starting to do Astropulse, we were aiming for jobs taking a month. It's not a race. Any number of credits, no matter how small, is "infinitely" greater than zero, right?:) |
Speedy Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1643 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89 |
We are down to only 98 AP 5 on the SSP, are you going to be ok . . . . Thanks for explaining Richard |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
[. Quality of Lifestyle is the important thing, not how many seti toasters you earn. Uhh, I have yet to get my toaster. Maybe they are having it sent out to be gold plated........ Or Dr. Anderson is perfecting the timer. ROFL. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Mowo Send message Joined: 24 Aug 00 Posts: 15 Credit: 4,004,399 RAC: 0 |
Over the past days (two to three weeks actually) I've encountered an awfully slow download of WU's. I'm using BOINC 7.0.25 right now, but before 6.0.12.34 was the same. I've got now dozens of WU's in the queue and the first 20 or so are in varying degrees of download. Every now and then, it downloads another few KB before stopping again. Manually updating brings almost no change, with perhaps 5 to 20KB download and then falling silent again. I checked the Cricket graph and saw that it is almost constantly at full load, but I wondered whether anyone else has encountered this worse-than-modem speed over an extended period of time recently? Or perhaps has anyone a tip for getting a more reliable DL of WU's? Thanks Mowo |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34257 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Unforunately thats normal nowadays. Just wait a few minutes and hit retry again. Works for me to keep my machine loaded. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Over the past days (two to three weeks actually) I've encountered an awfully slow download of WU's. Hmm..... I have noticed a rather troublesome problem with downloads over the last two or three years too....... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Mowo Send message Joined: 24 Aug 00 Posts: 15 Credit: 4,004,399 RAC: 0 |
Unforunately thats normal nowadays. Well, I would be quite happy if it'd work that way. Now I'm lucky if I manage to download one WU every two to three hours or so (and then mostly a shortie). If that persists, I guess I'll donate my GPU better to other projects that make use of it rather than waiting idle for SETI WU's that come when hell freezes over :( At least I could check from time to time whether SETI DL's become halfway working again :) Best Mowo |
Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
A lot in pending atm - what gives (or has given way already)? |
Rolf Send message Joined: 16 Jun 09 Posts: 114 Credit: 7,817,146 RAC: 0 |
The system should stop nagging me about installing 7.0.25, because that will never happen. I'd rather committ Seppuku, than letting Boinc V7 wreak havoc on my computers. +1 |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13732 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
I checked the Cricket graph and saw that it is almost constantly at full load, but I wondered whether anyone else has encountered this worse-than-modem speed over an extended period of time recently? For the last couple of days downloads have taken a couple more attempts to download than usual. Grant Darwin NT |
Bill Hepburn Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 13,149,813 RAC: 12 |
If your utility company has a "tiered structure", they charge much more during "peak demand" hours. You can tell BOINC to suspend during those hours and only compute with less expensive power. You might find that you can live with BOINC running while you are using the computers for other things (I find it gets out of the way well enough for CPU tasks, but not for GPU tasks). It still uses extra power, but that might be a reasonable alternative to stopping completely. If you get a Kill-A-Watt meter (or similar), you can monitor how much your computers use over time and shut them down if they get to whatever your threshold of pain is. |
Mowo Send message Joined: 24 Aug 00 Posts: 15 Credit: 4,004,399 RAC: 0 |
Interestingly. As a try, I completely de-installed v.7.0 and re-installed 6.10 and now it is much better. Still not very much downloads for SETI, but a lot more and better than before (not really hard though). Now at least it runs more or less permanently (even if without much reserves) rather than one shorty every two hours as before. Weird IMO, but I'm cured from more recent BOINC versions for the time being ;) Cheers Mowo |
Khangollo Send message Joined: 1 Aug 00 Posts: 245 Credit: 36,410,524 RAC: 0 |
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